Excel Basics | January 15th, 7:00pm Excel can be used for a variety of personal and business tasks from keeping track of your charitable spending to cleaning up your contacts so you can create mailing labels (see "Intermediate Word") to inventorying your belongings. In this class, we'll start with the basics: creating a new Excel spreadsheet, adding data in a logical format, and naming and saving your file. Then, we'll discuss how you can work more efficiently to format and manipulate data using formulas. (For more advanced topics, see "Intermediate Excel".)

Instructor: Debbie LeightDebbie Leight is the owner of Computers Made Easy, a Bay Area-based company that offers computer, smartphone and tablet tutoring. Debbie grew up in Silicon Valley and has worked in software for her entire career. She spent more than seven years at Google, where she trained new hires and clients in the use of Excel and conducted classes on how to use Google Apps. She founded Computers Made Easy in 2001 and today works with a wide variety of clients, from grandmothers and grandfathers with their first iPhone or iPad to small business owners who want to use technology to be more productive.

Experience required: Basic computer skills, using a keyboard and mouse